Why the University should divest

posted on: Mar 27, 2015

As an undergraduate at the University in the mid-1990s, I was incredibly optimistic about the chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed an historic accord in 1993, resulting in the establishment of the Palestinian Authority exercising a limited degree of autonomy over areas of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip from which Israel had redeployed. In 1996, Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation in these territories held elections for president and a legislative council. It seemed to me that negotiations were headed in a positive direction and would end in the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, an outcome which, I believed at the time, would be a fair and just resolution to this seemingly intractable conflict.

Source: michigandaily.com